Pandora’s Jar: Medea
Each of these illustrations is mentioned in Natalie Haynes book, Pandora’s Jar, about women in Greek myths. The page numbers refer to the book. The links are where I found…
Pandora’s Jar: Eurydice and Phaedra
Haynes only references three illustrations between them. So Eurydice and Phaedra are sharing a post. As before, each of these illustrations is mentioned in Natalie Haynes book, Pandora’s Jar, about…
Pandora’s Jar: Clytemnestra
Each of these illustrations is mentioned in Natalie Haynes book, Pandora’s Jar, about women in Greek myths. The page numbers refer to the book. The links are where I found…
Pandora’s Jar: The Amazons
Each of these illustrations is mentioned in Natalie Haynes book, Pandora’s Jar, about women in Greek myths. The page numbers refer to the book. The links are where I found…
Pandora’s Jar: Medusa
Each of these illustrations is mentioned in Natalie Haynes book, Pandora’s Jar, about women in Greek myths. The page numbers refer other book. The links are where I found the…
Pandora’s Jar: Helen
Helen of Troy is the third chapter of Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes. Here are the pictorial resources she draws on in the text in glorious colour.
Pandora’s Jar: Jocasta
In Chapter 1 of Pandora’s Jar I explored the problem of conflicting images of Pandora. When we come to Jocasta the problem is that we have virtually no images at…
Pandora’s Jar
Pandora’s Jar by Natalie Haynes explores the treatment of women in Greek mythology and brings their side of the story to the fore. Women were second class citizens in Ancient…
Not another manifesto?
This post is inspired by the work of Dave Middleton, especially his most recent blog. I offer it as a contribution to the discussion on what we should do now…
Books, Picture Books and their place in Literature
Michael made it very clear that it was very much a partnership, that children read the whole page, the words and pictures together. It was not the case that the…